Passamaquoddy

To
The Honorable The House of
Assembly of the Province of
New Brunswick

The petition of the Indians and descendants of Indians residing in Saint
Andrews on Indian point at the time of the landing of the American Loyalists.
Humbly showeth that some time in or near the fall of the year 1785 a ship or
vessel carrying American Loyalists came into Passamaquoddy Bay that the weather
becoming cold an Officer of the English Army named Major Wallace came to the
Indians then living on Indian point (Where they had permanently resided for many
years and where their dead are now buried) and requested leave to be allowed to
land saying that they would pay £25 for license to remain until the Spring when
he said that they would leave that there was some document written of which the
said Major Wallace possessed himself subsequently, that the said Loyalists did
land and built huts on Indian point and never paid the said sum of twenty five
pounds and never left the said point but remained and continued in possession
thereof and that the same is now in possession of their descendents contrary to
good faith.

Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that
your honorable House would cause an investigation and enquire who made as to the
above facts and if true cause some satisfaction and amends to be made to them
for such of the land where their fathers houses were built a great part of which
was granted by the King to the Town of Saint Andrews and is used as a common and
as in duty bound will ever pray